Employee Attitudes Toward Work-Site Alcohol Testing

Few studies have been published on how employees feel about work-site alcohol testing. By mail, we surveyed employees (n = 6370) at 16 corporate work sites stratified by type of work force, industrial setting, and managerial tolerance toward dunking. We queried respondents about their dunking on the...

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Published in:Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 1996-10, Vol.38 (10), p.1041-1046
Main Authors: Howland, Jonathan, Mangione, Thomas W., Lee, Marianne, Bell, Nicole, Levine, Sol
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accidents, Occupational
Adult
Alcohol
Alcohol Drinking
Alcohol use
Alcoholic Intoxication - diagnosis
Alcoholic Intoxication - prevention & control
Attitude
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
Blue collar workers
Employee testing
Humans
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Occupational Health
Occupations
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Personnel Selection
Prevention and actions
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
Substance Abuse Detection
Workplace
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Summary:Few studies have been published on how employees feel about work-site alcohol testing. By mail, we surveyed employees (n = 6370) at 16 corporate work sites stratified by type of work force, industrial setting, and managerial tolerance toward dunking. We queried respondents about their dunking on the job and support for work-site alcohol testing under three conditions: pre-employment testing, testing after an accident, and random testing. Sixty-five percent of respondents supported pre-employment testing, 81 % supported testing after an accident, and 49% supported random testing. Support was relatively consistent across hierarchy (managers, supervisors, and workers) but different by age, education, occupation, type of work force, and perceived exposure to occupational hazards. Support for work-site alcohol testing was highest among blue-collar workers whose jobs involved manufacturing or exposure to work-site hazards.
ISSN:1076-2752
1536-5948
DOI:10.1097/00043764-199610000-00016